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The Roman army withdrew, immediately abandoning the newly annexed provinces of Assyria, Mesopotamia and Armenia. Roman invasion of Southern Scotland (139-143) – Quintus Lollius Urbicus, by orders of Antoninus Pius, was sent to effect the reconquest of Lowland Scotland, winning some significant victories and building the Antonine Wall.
The invasion of the western part of the Roman Empire of the years 268–271 by the Alemanni, Marcomanni, Juthungi, Iazyges, and Hasdingi Vandals. 270 With the beginning of the year, while Claudius was still engaged in dealing with the Gothic threat, a new invasion of Juthungi again caused extensive damage in Rhaetia and Noricum.
Southern British tribes before the Roman invasion. In common with other regions on the edge of the empire, Britain had enjoyed diplomatic and trading links with the Romans in the century since Julius Caesar's expeditions in 55 and 54 BC, and Roman economic and cultural influence was a significant part of the British late pre-Roman Iron Age, especially in the south.
The ancient Latium vetus and its main inhabited centres Italy in 400 BC. The most ancient Roman history from the foundation of Rome as a small tribal village [3] until the end of the Royal Age with the fall of the kings of Rome is the least preserved.
Etruscan-Roman reservoir in Chiusi, purported Tomb of Lars Porsena. According to most accounts, Lars Porsena was buried in an elaborate tomb in (or under) the city he ruled. Pliny the Elder describes Porsena's tomb as having a 50 Roman foot high rectangular base with sides 300 feet long (approx. 15 x 89 m). It was adorned by pyramids and ...
250, Roman victory at the Battle of Nicopolis ad Istrum. Gothic victory at the Battle of Beroe. Siege and sack of Philippopolis by Goths led by Cniva. [51] 251, Three Roman legions defeated by Goths at the Battle of Abritus, Emperor Decius dies in battle, Co-Emperor Herennius Etruscus dies in battle.
The Pax Romana (Latin for ' Roman peace ') is a roughly 200+-year-long period of Roman history which is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stability, hegemonic power, and regional expansion. This is despite several revolts and wars, and continuing competition with Parthia.
The Pyrrhic War (/ ˈ p ɪr ɪ k / PIRR-ik; 280–275 BC) was largely fought between the Roman Republic and Pyrrhus, the king of Epirus, who had been asked by the people of the Greek city of Tarentum in southern Italy to help them in their war against the Romans.